MC Oct/12 - Masking - What's not To Like

Not sure why I'm doing as many Halloween cards this year since I don't send any out and don't do anything Halloween related... but I do love the imagery and of course the words/sentiments by Quietfire Design.

So this card started with a single layer challenge with a fall theme, then morphed into the Halloween stuff....

I side folded a 5" x 6.5" white card, masked off the border with masking tape. Stamped all my elements on tracing paper and cut them out, tacked them to the card front. Used a Dreamweaver spider web stencil and inked the design with a Perfect Medium pad, removed the stencil and clear embossed it, then stamped the 12 days of Halloween (Quietfire Design) using Versafine Black Onyx all over the front. Sponged Distress "Seedless Preserves" all over, then went over with "Chipped Sapphire", misted with water and dried. Removed some of the masks - the sentiment area and some of the leaves (Flourishes set #078), stamping with the black and clear embossing the sentiments, then removed the rest of the masks and continued stamping. Colored some with Tombows, then continued coloring with Derwent Inktense watercolor pencils (which I prefer) and a water brush. Stamped the crow/raven (Quietfire Design) with the black. Outlined the sentiment boxes with a black Zig Writer. Inked up the spider (Inkadinkado) with a Distress black pen.

I really like the look I got... You can click on either image for a larger view. Enjoy

And it fits for these challenges:
Dreamweaver Challenge  Monthly Oct - Festively Fall
Cupcake Craft Challenge  #213 Autumn
Incy Wincy Designs  #167 Anything Goes
Kaboodle Doodles  #140 Falling Leaves or fall colors
Colour Q  #158 Black, Orchid, Mustard, tangerine, white
Creative Card Crew  #21 Birds
Paper Take Weekly  All creatures great & small (birds & spiders)
A Paperie Journey  #OLW109 Halloween (single layer)
Top Tip Tuesday  #87 Things with wings
Tuesday Alchemy  #35 Anything Goes
Crafts & Me Challenge  #105 Anything goes
Desert Island Crafts  #39 Use any 3: candles, full moon, bats/owls,  spiders/bugs, silhouette, graves, purple, witches, ink splatter, silver/gold
Divas by Design  #56 Anything Goes
Lil Red Wagon  #154 Leaves/fall colors
The House That Stamps Built  #DCC10-10 masking
Crazy 4 Challenges  #157 use your favorite Halloween character (don't know if it's considered a character, but love Edgar Allen Poe's/ Ravens)
One Stitch at a Time  #134  Boo (Halloween)
The Pink Elephant Challenge  #169 photo inspir (see below)